Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET
698-1/29/88 (West side)
No.56

GV II

Shipping warehouse, now garment wholesalers' premises. c.1870,
altered. Plinth and ground floor of sandstone ashlar with some
polished pink granite, upper floors of red brick in Flemish
bond with some blue brick ornament, roof concealed.
Rectangular plan parallel to street, with loading bays in
right-hand side wall (to Mangle Street). Simplified Venetian
style. Basement and 4 storeys, 7 bays, symmetrical; cornice to
ground floor, pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors, arcaded frieze
and prominent cornice; central round-headed doorway with
set-in granite colonettes, crest on lintel lettered "FAC ET
SPERA", and banded 2-centred arched extrados; coupled windows
on all floors except the top: shouldered at basement level,
segmental-headed at ground floor with granite colonettes and
banded heads under linked hoodmoulds, square-headed at 2nd
floor with sandstone lintels and diaper bands above, banded
segmental-headed at 3rd floor with linking carved impost bands
and hoodmoulds; small triple windows at 4th floor, with
continuous sill-band. All these (except basement) sashed
without glazing bars. Right-hand return wall, 12 windows,
mostly narrow 4-pane sashes, those up to 2nd floor in
chamfered slots, and double loading bays towards rear, both
with internal wall-cranes and one with Jacobs ladder.
INTERIOR: wide quarter-turn staircase with cast-iron
balusters.

Listing NGR: SJ8461698259

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504846

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